REAL THING?

Tokyo / Osaka 1993

In the early 90ies an Austrian supermarket chain ran adds promoting fruit and veggies. I discovered that the poster where printed in silk screen instead of offset. I was granted a whole bunch of them and brought them with me to Japan. There I built wooed boxes, covered them with gaze and plaster like a broken leg and then by using color remover transferred the pigment of the poste and thereby the image onto the plaster background that was shapewise especially prepared for that occasion – a relief. Then I built boxes in the same size and put a real fruit or vegetable inside of it as a juxtaposition. In shows at Hosomi Gallery Tokyo (curator Yumi Takaishi) and Sai Gallery Osaka (curator Midori Yamamura) they would and right next to each other. The real fruit, fish, vegetable would rot away and fill the gallery with a stench. The show was a step toward the project Schuhwerk.

Below the hand made invitation – using gaze and printing by means of a potato stamp a monotype twice – green and red – 1000 copies.

Folder printed for the occasion

I was referring to poisonous pesticides being used to grow fruit and veggies and like the broken body part of a human they needed to be covered and mended by plaster. The show was dealing with the dichotomy man-nature.

Below the hand made invitation – using gaze and printing by means of a potato stamp a monotype twice – green and red – 1000 copies.